Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

The Kings were just moments away from tipping off vs. the Pelicans at Golden 1 Center when it was called.
I remember sitting in the break room at work and reading about that and Hanks' illness, either here or on teh Twitterez, and knew the world was about to change.

 

Happy birthday, @Cosmo - hope you get to enjoy with a few adult beverages.

Cheers!

 

That's the thing ... technically, the first documented COVID cases in the U.S. were (I think) in Washington state in late January 2020.

But no one paid attention until it hit the NBA, NCAA, and other sports. Then everything fell like dominoes.

 

Which you can't blame people for being skeptical at first (like in January 2020). Every few years you hear about a potential pandemic where the story is "It's probably going to fizzle out to nothing, but we need to keep an eye on it because there's a small chance it could be a huge problem." This time the small chance hit.

 

True. When they write the book on COVID and how it spread, it really took the perfect storm of medical, societal and political factors.

Have we had another pandemic since the 1918-19 flu that spread so quickly? That's 100 years.

 

Happy birthday!

Mine is the 13th. Last year, we had friends over and sat around the dining room talking about Covid. It was the last time anybody who doesn't live in this house has been inside it.

 

And we can yell all we want about how we New Zealand did it better, but the US had a completely different situation. Much larger, more spread out population, multiple entry points established by the virus before we even knew it was there.

We could have had a couple hundred thousand dead instead of 600k, but the only way this could have been truly stopped quickly in the US would have been with an early lockdown that lasted multiple months. And I mean a *real* lockdown, where police stop people from leaving their homes and food is delivered, you need a special pass to be outside your home. And then after that was over, we would need to shut down our international borders and restrict interstate travel to verified essential with quarantines.

Nobody, not even the leftiest left, was looking to take measures like that in March.

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

 

Me too! pfizer, today.

 

My booster shot is set for April 1.

 

Mayday aim: Biden wants everyone vaccine-eligible by May 1

 

Got the green light to get the vaccine starting 3/29.

Yay pre-existing condition!